Empire of the Air : : The Men Who Made Radio / / Tom Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Lewis, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Paperback Edition --; Prologue: A New Empire for a New Century --; 1. The Faith in the Future --; 2. The Will to Succeed --; 3. “What Wireless Is Yet to Be” --; 4. Sarnoff and Marconi: Inventing a Legend --; 5. Wireless Goes to War --; 6. Releasing the Art: The Creation of RCA --; 7. Snapshots from the First Age of Broadcasting --; 8. Court Fight --; 9. The Godlike Presence --; 10. Armstrong and the FM Revolution --; 11. The Wizard War --; 12. “Until I’m Dead or Broke” --; 13. Victories Great and Small --; Epilogue: The Empire in Decline --; Sources and Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501759338; 9783110739084; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754070; 9783110753837
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501759338?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tom Lewis.

Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff—whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak. Empire of the Air is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between inventor and corporation.